Housekeeping Notes 1st Semester Pdf
Roselee Kruppa
Quick update: I had this newsletter all ready to go when my marketing team told me B&N is having a 25% off sale on preorders today. This includes Yellowface! Go have a look around, get yourself a surprise treat for later in the year.
Also, as a sidebar, I hope you continue to love teaching! I loved teaching, but I got very tired of how much work I had to put into it as opposed to my actual studies and writing. (Grading, lesson plans, more grading, trying to help students when they didn't want to be helped... granted, I was teaching comp. When I taught science, it was a bit better.)
Hi Rebecca! This was such a fun read. I wanted to let you know that I'm a comparative literature student at Berkeley currently taking an East Asian sci fi class. (Actually, the short blurb about June and wanting to peel off Athena's skin like an orange kind of reminds me of some of the texts we've read in this class, like Membranes by Chi Ta-wei). Also, my professor told me that you almost came here for your PhD! Ah. A missed opportunity for sure! But I'm glad that you'll be touring in the west coast, finally!
Regarding the translation of a Chinese story about the capitalist accumulation of time, I hope you can tell us about it when it is published. Aside from the East Asian Sci-Fi class that I'm taking right now, in second semester of college, I took a class called "Premodern Chinese Novels". In this class I learned about how eastern cultures, specifically China/ancient China, conceive of time. (The short, and shallow, and very incomplete answer is: non-linearly! As you may know) I hope you can tell us where to find your paper when it comes out because I'd love to read it, and temporality fascinates me even now!
I always tell people my favorite season is the start of fall semester, which is true, but the start of the spring semester takes a close second. We\u2019re all back from break, juggling textbooks and coffees, running around campus trying to figure out where our classes are, and always arriving five minutes late and out of breath. It\u2019s snowing, and watching the snow fall in thick fat flakes out my window makes my fresh-brewed cup of tea taste so much better. My mind is a spinning raffle drum of ideas to chase down rabbit holes; nothing is settled, and everything seems possible.
Thinking about: student activism. Since Babel came out, I often get the question, \u201CSo why are you still in a PhD program?\u201D Meaning: what good comes from continuing to participate in the academy? I\u2019ve given several different answers \u2013 change from within, the value of the classroom \u2013 but I\u2019m still struggling to articulate my position in the academy and what I want to do with it. Happily, I\u2019m in the first cohort of Yale\u2019s Ethnicity, Race & Migration certificate program, and our proseminar this semester tackles many of these same questions of revolution within the academy, scholarship that serves the community, and breaking down the scholar/activist divide. I still don\u2019t have the answers, but I am at least deepening my understanding of institutional reform in this country, and of student movements of the past. Some readings that struck me:
From Audre Lorde\u2019s \u201CLearning from the 60s\u201D: \u201CAnd in the university, that is certainly no easy task, for each one of you by virtue of your being here will be deluged by opportunities to misname yourselves, to forget who you are, to forget where your real interests lie. Make no mistake, you will be courted; and nothing neutralizes creativity quicker than tokenism, that false sense of security fed by a myth of individual solutions.\u201D I wish I\u2019d read this before I wrote Babel.
From the B.S.C.-M.A.Y.A. Demands for Lumumba-Zapata College: \u201CTogether with our American brothers in struggle \u2014 on the campuses and in the streets \u2014 and with our comrades throughout the Third World who are involved in wars of liberation, we reject a system which thrives on military technology and imperialist profit. At the University of California, San Diego, we will no longer insure the undisturbed existence of a false institution which consistently fails to respond to the needs of our people.\u201D Where can we find this same bravery in campus activism today? Campus activism today gets so quickly maligned as mere whining by unhappy snowflakes; we forget that many departments (including my own!) only exist because of student demands.
Reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - my fiance\u2019s department are conveniently doing this for their reading group this month. It\u2019s been on my list since I finished Jonathan Strange, so I cracked open the paperback while I was in Marseille and I am so glad I did. It is a perfect book. G\u00F6del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter - feels like one of those books everyone is always telling me to read, and I finally comitted this month to getting through it all. Forty pages in I have discovered many overlaps with this logic-magic-Hell book I\u2019m drafting right now\u2013namely, G\u00F6del\u2019s incompleteness theorems, the Liar\u2019s Paradox, Grelling\u2019s Paradox, and Russel\u2019s paradox\u2026Hofstadter seems to think they are all just different versions of the same \u201Cstrange loop\u201D! (If this is nonsense to you then get excited because I\u2019m about to put out a whole novel of such nonsense.) And a reread of In The Woods by Tana French\u2013I got a friend hooked on the Dublin Murder Squad books a few weeks ago, and ended up binge-reading The Likeness on a flight home. It\u2019s a dangerous recommendation - now I\u2019m back in Cassie Maddox\u2019s world again and I\u2019m afraid I\u2019m addicted.
Working on: My advisor is leading a massive introductory \u201CChina in Six Keys\u201D class this term, and I\u2019m teaching one of the discussion sections. It\u2019s my first semester TFing! Suddenly so much of my time is taken up with drafting lesson plans, planning sections, and grading papers \u2013 I\u2019m still in the honeymoon phase where all teaching is fun, and I hope the other shoe never drops. Other than that I\u2019m also working on a translation of a Chinese science fiction short story about the capitalist accumulation of time (hoping to place this for publication in the next few months), summer travel grant applications, and Yellowface launch materials. And of course\u2026Katabasis.
Some housekeeping notes: I\u2019ll tour the US, UK, and (likely) Canada throughout May for Yellowface. All ticket links will be announced first through this newsletter in late February or March. This will be my largest US tour to date - they\u2019re finally sending me to the West Coast. More soon, California! I\u2019m also visiting Toronto, Warsaw, Prague, and likely Munich for book events at various points this year\u2026I can\u2019t wait.
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